When most women go through a midlife crisis, they start a diet, get plastic surgery, or have an affair. My life went to the dogs and horses and llamas, and did I mention happy hour with the goats? I took a leap of faith and crash-landed on a dilapidated farm on the windy prairie of Colorado. It’s my bittersweet midlife transition to a modern pioneer woman, building a different kind of family farm.

A moving and sensitive account, using contemporary material of that time, of the selection and training of horses and mules at the Lathom Remount Depot (UK). Before crossing the English Channel to engage in battle some of them had already traversed the Atlantic by boat having been through the selection process in North America.